Traffickers abuse various people to achieve their financial desires, "U.S. State Department estimates suggest that approximately 70% of sex trafficking victims are women and approximately 50% of victims are under 18." (McCabe 1) Although traffickers most often abuse women and children, they also exploit men. In the book “Criminal Investigation of Sex Trafficking in America” by Leonard Territo and Nataliya Glover, “it was estimated by the United States Department of Justice that between 700,000 and 2,000,000 people are trafficked each year worldwide, and 80% of them is exploited for sexual purposes." slaves." (Glover 3) There are different concepts of how traffickers abuse the people they kidnap, but exploiting them for sex is an easy way to make money and supports why traffickers kidnap women and children more often. Women and children are much easier to kidnap because men are hypothetically dominant and according to April Rieger of the law firm Williams & Connolly LLP and the author of the academic journal, “MISSING THE MARK: WHY THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT FAILS TO PROTECT SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS IN THE UNITED STATES,” “traffickers have taken advantage of the unequal status of women and girls in countries of origin and transit, including harmful stereotypes of women as property, commodities, servitude, and sexual objects.” (Rieger 5) April Rieger stated that women are only seen as something to be used and that women are disposable, but not only are women and children easier to kidnap, but children who have psychological problems are the winning lottery to win. traffickers. Traffickers often manipulate abused and abandoned children into joining them. These children get involved in prostitution because they don't have the support of their families, so they use money to get what they want